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Tuesday August 5, 2025. 05:01 PM
The call for topics for the 2025 Maintainers Summit has been posted. The Summit, to be held in Tokyo on December 10, will involve around 30 developers gathered to discuss development-process issues for the kernel. Anybody who is interested in attending is encouraged to post...
Antonio Cuni, who is a longtime Python performance engineer and PyPy developer, gave a presentation at EuroPython 2025 about 'Myths and fairy tales around Python performance' on the first day of the conference in Prague. As might be guessed from the title, he thinks that...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (python-requests), Fedora (mingw-libxslt), Red Hat (gdk-pixbuf2, jq, kernel, mod_security, ncurses, nodejs:22, opentelemetry-collector, python-setuptools, python3-setuptools, python3.12-setuptools, qt5-qt3d, redis, redis:6,...
Monday August 4, 2025. 04:26 PM
A pair of packages containing fortune 'cookies' that were deemed offensive have been removed from the upcoming Debian 13 ('trixie') release. This has, of course, led to a lengthy discussion and debate about what does, or does not, belong in the distribution. It may also lead ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-21-openjdk, kernel, libxml2, and lz4), Debian (exempi, ruby-graphql, and sope), Fedora (binutils, chromium, gdk-pixbuf2, libsoup3, poppler, and reposurgeon), Mageia (glib2.0 and wxgtk), Oracle (jackson-annotations,...
Friday August 1, 2025. 07:20 PM
Running a modern mail server is a complicated business. In part, this complication is caused by the series of incrementally developed practices designed to combat the huge flood of spam that dominates modern email communication. An unfortunate side effect is that it...
Linuxiac reports that another malicious package has been uploaded to the Arch User Repository (AUR). This time around the package was google-chrome-stable, which installed a remote-access trojan along with Google Chrome. The good news—if you can call it that—is that the ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox and thunderbird), Debian (libcommons-lang-java, node-form-data, redis, and sope), Fedora (chromium), Mageia (slurm), Oracle (apache-commons-beanutils, firefox, kernel, redis:6, and thunderbird), Red Hat (kernel,...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.15.9, 6.12.41, and 6.6.101 stable kernels.
Thursday July 31, 2025. 07:14 PM
SilverBullet is a MIT-licensed note-taking application, designed to run as a self-hosted web server. Started in 2022, the project is approaching its 2.0 release, making this a good time to explore the features it offers. SilverBullet stores notes as plain Markdown files,...
Matthew Garrett has posted a detailed followup to our recent article on the coming expiration of Microsoft's Secure Boot signing key. The upshot is that nobody actually enforces these expiry dates - here's the reference code that disables it. In a year's time we'll have...
As of this writing, just over 4,000 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository during the 6.17 merge window. When he announced the merge-window opening, Linus Torvalds let it be known that, due to a busy personal schedule, he was likely to pull...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, java-21-openjdk, kernel, thunderbird, and unbound), Debian (chromium and systemd), Fedora (libtiff), Oracle (java-21-openjdk, libtpms, nodejs:22, redis:7, thunderbird, and unbound), Red Hat (firefox, redis, and...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Becoming a Python contributor; Graphene OS; Fedora quality team; 6.16 Development statistics; Proxy execution; Run-time verification; Confidential VMs. Briefs: HeliumOS 10; European Tech Funding; GNU C Library 2.42;...
Wednesday July 30, 2025. 05:39 PM
GitHub director of developer policy, Felix Reda, has published a blog post about a GitHub-commissioned study by Open Forum Europe, Fraunhofer ISI and the European University Institute. The study finds, not surprisingly, 'a profound mismatch between the importance of open...
There are a lot of things people expect the Linux kernel to do correctly. Some of these are checked by testing or static analysis; a few are ensured by run-time verification: checking a live property of a running Linux system. For example, the scheduler has a handful of...
In the first keynote at EuroPython 2025 in Prague, Savannah Bailey described her path to becoming a CPython core developer in November 2024. She started down that path a few years earlier and her talk was meant to inspire others—not to slavishly follow hers, but to create...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, icu, kernel-rt, libtpms, redis:6, redis:7, and sqlite), Fedora (chromium and cloud-init), Oracle (icu, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, nodejs:22, perl, and sqlite), SUSE (docker, java-1_8_0-openj9,...
Tuesday July 29, 2025. 05:42 PM
The HeliumOS project has announced the release of HeliumOS 10. It is relatively new image-based ('atomic') desktop distribution based on packages from CentOS Stream and AlmaLinux, with a goal of providing 10 years of support. HeliumOS 10 uses the KDE Plasma Desktop, Zsh as...
Priority inversion comes about when a low-priority task holds a resource that is also needed by a high-priority task, preventing the latter from running. This problem is made much worse if the low-priority task is unable to gain access to the CPU and, as a result, cannot...
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